From: RolfK <Rolf.Kemper@...>
Date: 2008-11-24T02:45:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and SVG

Philip,

thank you for your suggestion.
Up to today I have created my SVGs out of a data xml by xslt/xpath
2.0. But this was not interactive, as displaying the result took a
renderer.
If I understand your idea right, I could use Inkscape to create all
the shape objects out of my Ruby program.
Does the binding also handle mouse events (e.g. created by mouseup/
down) on an Inksacpe SVG object ?


Phlip schrieb:
> RolfK wrote:
>
> > I'm an absolutely beginner to Ruby.
> > But, besides the language itself (which seems quite interesting to
> > me ) it is importnat  to find out what support is available for XML
> > and in particular for SVG. I served a bit around "Ruby SVG" and my
> > impression is that there is maybe no active development.
> >
> > I have to create a lot of technical drawings and charts.
> > Another point is the renderer and may be in addition an interactive
> > canvas.
> >
> > Can anybody feedback some comment on this.
>
> libxml-ruby is going to handle SVG fine - but low level, without awareness of
> all the nodes' meanings.
>
> You need to think first of a high-level editor that is already written.
> Inkscape, for example, is open-source, and has Ruby bindings. So, IIRC, does
> Google Sketchup.
>
> Then write unit tests for everything you do. I would use XPath in those tests to
> spot-check the SVG contents...
>
> --
>    Phlip